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All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018. 

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

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I thought I would create a place to share thoughts, memories, or memorials if you wish.

My sailor was three years old and I was yet to be pregnant with our youngest who was born the following year at 9:11 PM. Like those who were alive during the JFK assassination - I too will always remember where I was when I heard the news. I was getting out of the car to drop my sailor off at preschool when a friend of mine said, "The Towers have been bombed" or something like that. I could not even fathom or comprehend what had happened. I had been to the top of the World Trade Center on a tour with exchange students when I was in high school. I left my son at the Mother's Day Out and came home to turn on the news. My little girls were all in school with some of them having information flying around them and others protected.


The impact for our family hit closer to home when bomb threats started coming into the schools and our children were evacuated to outside in what was still a hot time for our area. High schoolers were dispersed and had no way of contacting parents, because until that point cell phones were banned from the schools.


Once again, our community faced terrorism at its doorstep, and we reached out across the miles from OKC to NYC to help a community heal, rebuild, and pay tribute to loved ones who had been lost.


While we will never forget and always remember those lives lost, may we continue to love, support, and pray for all our military, first responders, and their family members who continue to give their lives for our freedom. May our own lives share love, goodness, and mercy with all those around us.

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As I was driving to work today, I was thinking where I was on this day in 2001.  I remembered the people I was with and how horrified we all were that this could happen in the USA.  I also remember how our country pulled together and how proud I was and still am to be an American.

My son was 4 and all he remembers is seeing the same scenes over and over again on TV.  He did not understand the significance at that time, but grew to understand.  Never Forget!

momc - Thank you! Your comment reminded me of Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA, which  is among one of my sailor's favorite songs. I have had the privilege of being able to call him at various times over the last two years when we are some place and it is being sung, and letting him listen along with us. 

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